yield是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. /vi. 生产; 生长; 让步; 投降; 屈服; n. 产量，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At other times, I thought, What if the young man who was with so much difficulty restrained from imbruing his hands in me should yield to a constitutional impatience, or should mistake the time, and should think himself accredited to my heart and liver to-night, instead of to-morrow!If ever anybody's hair stood on end with terror, mine must have done so then.
-- I asked, determined not to yield an inch of the fire.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I had soon reason to repent those foolish words: for that malicious reprobate, having often endeavoured in vain to persuade both the cap-tains that I might be thrown into the sea (which they would not yield to, after the promise made me that I should not die), however, prevailed so far, as to have a punishment in-flicted on me, worse, in all human appearance, than death itself.
-- He took notice of a general tradition, 'that Yahoos had not been always in their country; but that many 346 Gulliver's Travelsages ago, two of these brutes appeared together upon a mountain; whether produced by the heat of the sun upon corrupted mud and slime, or from the ooze and froth of the sea, was never known; that these Yahoos engendered, and their brood, in a short time, grew so numerous as to overrun and infest the whole nation; that the Houyhnhnms, to get rid of this evil, made a general hunting, and at last enclosed the whole herd; and destroying the elder, every Houyhnhnm kept two young ones in a kennel, and brought them to such a degree of tameness, as an animal, so savage by nature, can be capable of acquiring, using them for draught and carriage; that there seemed to be much truth in this tradition, and that those creatures could not be yinhniam-shy (or aborigines of the land), because of the violent hatred the Houyhnhnms, as well as all other animals, bore them, which, although their evil disposition sufficiently deserved, could never have arrived at so high a degree if they had been aborigines, or else they would have long since been rooted out; that the inhabitants, taking a fancy to use the service of the Yahoos, had, very imprudently, neglected to cultivate the breed of asses, which are a comely animal, easily kept, more tame and orderly, without any offensive smell, strong enough for labour, although they yield to the other in agil-ity of body, and if their braying be no agreeable sound, it is far preferable to the horrible howlings of the Yahoos.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is remarkable as showing the wide prevalence of this law, that among the natives of the British possessions in India, also in a considerable part of China, and among the Calmucks of Tartary, the best means of computation yet furnished us by travellers, yield similar results.
-- Private feeling must yield to the common cause.
-- Although it was hard to believe that her retiring for the night could be anything but a form, so severely wide awake were those classical eyes of hers, and so impossible did it seem that her rigid nose could yield to any relaxing influence, yet her manner of sitting, smoothing her uncomfortable, not to say, gritty mittens (they were constructed of a cool fabric like a meat-safe), or of ambling to unknown places of destination with her foot in her cotton stirrup, was so perfectly serene, that most observers would have been constrained to suppose her a dove, embodied by some freak of nature, in the earthly tabernacle of a bird of the hook-beaked order.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The working of these mines could only be carried out at an expense that would never yield a profit.
-- "I am forced to yield to the evidence of my senses, but I am nevertheless very much surprised."
-- But kick as one may, one must yield to evidence, and I was finally convinced of my error.
-- But whatever might have been my wish, I was compelled to yield to the weight of ocular demonstration.
-- Whatever happened, we should have been at Spitsbergen, and I was in no humor to yield to anything but the most absolute proof.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connexion.
-- But a woman could yield to a man without yielding her inner, free self.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be worth no man's while to mislead me; it would really be too easy too poor a success, to yield any satisfaction.
-- Who could be much with so pliable and beautiful a creature, and not yield to her endearing influence?
-- 'Suppose that a man,' so his thoughts ran, 'who had been of age some twenty years or so; who was a diffident man, from the circumstances of his youth; who was rather a grave man, from the tenor of his life; who knew himself to be deficient in many little engaging qualities which he admired in others, from having been long in a distant region, with nothing softening near him; who had no kind sisters to present to her; who had no congenial home to make her known in; who was a stranger in the land; who had not a fortune to compensate, in any measure, for these defects; who had nothing in his favour but his honest love and his general wish to do right suppose such a man were to come to this house, and were to yield to the captivation of this charming girl, and were to persuade himself that he could hope to win her; what a weakness it would be!'
-- 'Politeness must yield to this misguided girl, ma'am,' said Mr Meagles, 'at her present pass; though I hope not altogether to dismiss it, even with the injury you do her so strongly before me.
-- In the arrangement of the house for the great occasion, many little reminders of the old travels of the father and mother and daughter had to be disturbed and passed from hand to hand; and sometimes, in the midst of these mute witnesses, to the life they had had together, even Pet herself would yield to lamenting and weeping.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I wasn't meant for a life like this, and I know I shall break away and do something desperate if somebody doesn't come and help me,' she said to herself, when her first efforts failed and she fell into the moody, mis-erable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And like a sister of charity did this charitable Aunt Charity bustle about hither and thither, ready to turn her hand and heart to anything that promised to yield safety, comfort, and consolation to all on board a ship in which her beloved brother Bildad was concerned, and in which she herself owned a score or two of well-saved dollars.
-- Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs; this six-inch chapter is the stoneless grave of Bulkington.
-- Though their blubber is very thin, some of these whales will yield you upwards of thirty gallons of oil.
-- A well-fed, plump Huzza Porpoise will yield you one good gallon of good oil.
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